Example sentences of "did [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 3 | Tina had never been married , though her mother had never given up hope , and did not give it up now , that a wedding would one day take place . |
| 4 | He did not want her here . |
| 5 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 6 | After all those months of fighting the knowledge that Anthony did not want her much , it was a heavenly feeling . |
| 7 | She would accept no other visitors and yet , he sensed , she did not want him near . |
| 8 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 9 | as if she too did not want him there , not then , not at that moment |
| 10 | She did not want him now . |
| 11 | She did not want him anywhere near it . |
| 12 | It was therefore possible to argue that you did not want it even if you could have it . ’ |
| 13 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not want you here and I certainly do not want Ana 's life complicated further . ’ |
| 15 | She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes . |
| 16 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 17 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 18 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 19 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 20 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 21 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 22 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 23 | They doubted that this act represented any substantial change in policy and did not regard it as sufficient to confirm Pakistani non-alignment in light of the continuation of strong military links between Washington and Islamabad . |
| 24 | Though it probably did not benefit her economically as much as has sometimes been thought , it endowed Britain with a great colonial empire and virtually unlimited opportunities of further expansion . |
| 25 | Mr Gummer argued that he was justified in not registering the work as the show did not benefit him financially . |
| 26 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
| 27 | Chief Joseph did not reach them soon enough . ’ |
| 28 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |
| 29 | The old farmer did not pay him much money . |
| 30 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |